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Lesson 1: Lines, Ellipses and Boxes

7:31 PM, Friday August 14th 2020

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Excited to be on this journey with you. Happy to redo or change how I complete an exercise! Hope you're doing well and thank you for taking a look at my work ????

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1:54 AM, Sunday August 16th 2020

I think the biggest improvement area in your work is making more confident strokes without wobbles that go all the way through from point A to B. It already seems like you've improved on this since you began, with obvious improvement in your organic perspective exercise. I also thought your ability to rotate the shapes in your rotated boxes exercise was really impressive, though some of the lines could have been straighter or marked more confidently.

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11:27 PM, Sunday August 23rd 2020

Thank you! https://drawabox.com/community/submission/YLM6PWGI and https://drawabox.com/community/submission/37ZY2PMG are other examples of excellent reviews if you're looking for other critiques

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